RELIGION AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE 2

CLE 2013-2014 Full Name Matthew Monteverde 4F Section 17 LC#

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Part One: YOUR Epistemological World Views Summarize here your findings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, Relativist, or Evaluativist? Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Item #s 1, 5, 14 4, 8, 12 3, 7, 10 6, 9, 11 2, 13, 15 YOUR Philo of K Evaluativist Evaluativist Evaluativist Evaluativist Relativist Brief Reason + Remarks There can be many answers to a question but one is more correct than the other. There can be many answers to a question but one is more correct than the other. There can be many answers to a question but one is more correct than the other. There can be many answers to a question but one is more correct than the other. People have different opinions and they might both be correct.

Part Two: Ways of Knowing How important are the different Ways of Knowing in the different domains? Rank them from 1 to 5 according to importance, with 1 as MOST IMPORTANT. If you think there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Reason Perception 3 1 2 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 Language 2 3 4 4 4 Emotion 4 4 2 1 1 none none none none none Others?

Part Three: AUTHORITY and/or EVIDENCE/ARGUMENT When you justify claims, how much do you actually rely on External Authority and Direct Evidence for every domain? Assign a percentage to each one per domain (Just make an estimate, so NO decimal points--e.g., 25.2321%!). Make sure both total 100%. Domains % AUTHORITY 25% 35% 40% 80% 80% % EVIDENCE /ARGUMENT 75% 65% 50% 20% 20% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Brief Reason + Remarks

Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion

Evidence is what makes sciences a fact. The evidence is more important to make us more sure. Evidence is more because we have to see it. I base my thinking of morality towards authority more. We cannot literally really see evidence in religion except for historical written documents.

Why do you think there is no OPINION in Part Three? We all have different views that are based on where we grew up and how we were taught.

Some other learnings, comments, connections... It is through Authority and Evidence that makes us different from one another. These are the reason why we have different answer in our respective epistemological world views.